Monday 20 December 2010 - Air Blue Airbus A319 AP-BIE continues to Manchester

Air Blue Airbus A319-112 AP-BIE diverted in on Sunday evening

while operating their Islamabad-Trazbon-Manchester service....

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.... after spending the night at BHX it positioned to Manchester
Photo: Ron Kosys
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Air Via Airbus A320-232 LZ-MDC positioned in to operate a
Thomas Cook IT flight to Las Palmas
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Emirates Boeing 777-31HER A6-ECX arrived from Hamburg were
it had diverted on Saturday while enroute to Heathrow - it then
operated an additional flight back to Dubai.. Photo: Mike Hollick
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To add to the weather related problems Helvetic Fokker 100 HB-JVC
- which operated the Swiss flight from Zurich - suffered a hydraulic
failure on arrival blocking Taxiway Alpha.... ..Photo: Ron Kosys
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.... while the aircraft was being recovered to the terminal it was
necessary for departing aircraft to wait.... ..Photo: Ian Bowley
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.... as landing aircraft back tracked to clear the Runway

- SAS MD 82 LN-RML exits at Echo One
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Aircraft that have been at Birmingham over the weekend like

FedEx/Air Contractors ATR 72-202F EI-FXG which was parked

on the Elmdon apron remained snow bound.... ..Photo: Ron Kosys
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.... with Danu Oro ATR 42-300F LY-OOV needing a full de ice
Photo: Mike Hollick
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.... and there was still plenty of snow to go around!!